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100+ lessons
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Flagship Course: A Climber's Guide to Training

£145.00

  • Your complete training handbook
  • Learn to write your own training plan
  • Explore the science of training
  • 100+ lessons, 8+ hours of content
  • 10+ tasks to develop and apply your skills
  • Downloadable training plan template, resources, and exercise library
  • Lifetime access
  • 14 day money-back guarantee

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open quotation A high-quality, clear, and comprehensive training package that empowers climbers with the knowledge, tools, and tips to effectively design their own climbing training. closed quotation

Tanya Meredith

Topics covered:

Chapter 1
Week 1: Introduction
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Chapter 1 covers the course philosophy, how it’s delivered, and how to get the most out of it. You’ll also be able to download your key resources, including a plan template, and exercise library. Plus, meet your teachers!
Chapter 2
Week 2: Key principles of training
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Chapter 2 covers the key foundations of training plans, including recovery, specificity, and progressive overload. You’ll learn about training periods and how to maintain consistency, completing a planning exercise to map out your personal training timeline. The chapter also explores how training can be used to develop climbing skills, as well as the physical attributes important for climbing.
Chapter 3
Week 3: Your climbing and training
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Chapter 3 is a chance for reflection, focusing on understanding your physical attributes, movement skills, and past experiences. You’ll complete a task to help identify what you value in climbing and go on to set goals that align with these, breaking them down into smaller achievable milestones. From here, you’ll be guided through our step-by-step process for creating your own training plan.
Chapter 4
Week 4: Strength training for climbing
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Chapter 4 focuses on understanding and training the different components of strength and power for climbing, particularly through bouldering. It explores how to make the most of bouldering as a training tool, offering examples of how to gauge progress and bring intention to your sessions. The chapter provides guidance on how to program bouldering training for both boulderers and sport climbers, with specific examples of bouldering and power sessions. It delves into the concept of power in climbing, explaining how to assess and train it effectively. Additionally, the chapter discusses how to use programming to improve strength and power over time, and explores various methods of training power, highlighting their pros and cons to help you choose the best approach for your needs.
Chapter 5
Week 5: Endurance training for climbing
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Chapter 5 focuses on understanding the energy systems and how they work together in climbing. It explains the outcomes of endurance training and its relevance to different climbing disciplines, highlighting the skills and techniques needed to maximise forearm endurance on-the-wall. You’ll learn how to assess your forearm endurance to understand your current capacity and track progress after training interventions. The chapter covers endurance and power endurance protocols, helping you find the right intensity for your training with a guided practice session. Example sessions and training plans will help you understand how to select exercises and program them into your own training with the key principles of training in mind. Lastly, your teacher will explore some common mistakes both boulderers and sport climbers make when programming their endurance and power endurance training.
Chapter 6
Week 6: Supplementary training for climbing
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Chapter 6 focuses on supporting your climbing through off-the-wall exercises, including finger strength, flexibility, and weight training. It explores various methods for training finger strength, explaining what adaptation different protocols promote and how to choose one that suits your needs. You’ll learn how to test your finger strength to establish a benchmark and guide your training. Flexibility training is covered in-depth, going beyond passive stretching to include advanced methods, tips for programming, and tried-and-tested flexibility protocols tailored for climbers. You’ll discover how to assess your flexibility and its impact on your climbing performance. Additionally, the chapter highlights the benefits of incorporating weight training into your routine, explaining different rep ranges, how to select them, and how to progress over time.
Chapter 7
Week 7: Ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting your training
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Chapter 7 focuses on managing the mental and practical aspects of climbing training to ensure sustained progress. It begins by addressing the importance of managing expectations and avoiding over-analysis, helping you maintain a balanced and adaptable mindset. You’ll learn how to adjust your training as you gain insights, and how to schedule it effectively within your week to maximise results. The chapter offers strategies for handling both major and minor setbacks, including troubleshooting why certain aspects, like strength or endurance training, might not be yielding results. Finally, it provides valuable tips on approaching injuries constructively, encouraging you to view them as opportunities to learn and refine your training approach.
Chapter 8
Week 8: Bonus content: Train like a pro!
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The bonus content offers a unique glimpse into the training routines of professional climbers, providing actionable insights for your own climbing journey. Coach Ollie Torr shares his approach to training Aidan Roberts, demonstrating how the principles from this course are applied in practice, along with key takeaways you can implement. You'll also hear directly from Aidan as he navigates his training, sharing his mindset and the intention he brings to each session. Similarly, Coach Ella Russell provides an in-depth look at Josh Ibbertson’s training, highlighting how the course principles are tailored to his needs. Josh shares his perspective on completing his training, offering valuable insights into his focused and intentional approach. This bonus content bridges the gap between theory and practice, inspiring you with examples from the pros.

What's Included?

100+ lessons

Let our coaches guide you through 7 chapters covering everything from the basics to troubleshooting.

10+ tasks to develop and apply your learning

Test your knowledge by completing tasks that relate to your training and climbing, and will form the foundation of your self-written training plan.

8+ hours of content

Quick, entertaining and to-the-point. Everything you need to know in bitesized chunks.

Example sessions

We'll show you how to transfer the theory to practice.

50% discount on Remote Assessment

Discover your strengths and weaknesses so you know what areas to focus on in your training.

Lifetime access

No rush! Learn at your own pace!

Want to write your own training plan, but don’t know how?

There’s so much information out there: where do you begin? Here at Lattice, our coaches have a combined 150 years of coaching experience; we have tried-and-tested training methods that we’re psyched to share with you in this course.

Together with our coaches, you will delve into essential topics, such as periodisation and progression, understanding and applying these fundamental principles to your training. Explore what exercises and areas for focus are going to help you achieve your goals, and how to write these up in a structured training plan — plus, all the tools you need for troubleshooting.

Have you plateaued?

Has your current strategy stopped working? Maybe you’ve never trained before. Perhaps your current training isn’t working like it used to.

It’s time to switch it up and try something new!

Let our coaches guide you through the fundamentals (and then some!) of training for climbing. Discover how to identify and target your areas for improvement, and structure your training in a way that ensures consistent progress.

Break through your plateau today with A Climber’s Guide to Training!

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Reviews

open quotation This is a great course that has helped me better understand the 'why' behind certain training approaches so I can get the most out of my training time and energy. closed quotation

Kevin L

open quotation A great tool for those without a background in sport science who are looking to learn more about training and work towards their own goals. Although the introductory chapters might feel a bit hard to get into initially, as it's self-paced you can go back over material you might have missed in your own time. Having never written a training plan before and always felt a little unsure where to start I found it an excellent tool to take control of my own climbing goals and felt confident to start a plan of my own after accessing the material - I've already seen improvements and managed to achieve one of my big climbing goals recently! I will definitely be revisiting this resource for my own training as well as using it as CPD for coaching training. closed quotation

Hannah Whaley

open quotation I just wanted to say how brilliant it is! Not just the content, clear layout and sequencing - but also the delivery. You are all so clear, authoritative and easy to understand - it really is a masterpiece. closed quotation

Libby Peters

open quotation A high-quality, clear and comprehensive training package that empowers climbers with the knowledge, tools and tips to effectively design their own climbing training. In this package, Lattice have synthesised their team's coaching experience, working with 1000s of different clients to achieve a wide variety of sport, boulder, trad goals. Our coaching team at Boulder UK climbing wall have found it valuable professionally and personally. If, like me, you already work with a climbing coach, have read about training, or have written your own plans in the past, there are still lots of things to learn and many useful tips for you to consider; completing this training also means that you are able to have more informed conversations about your own training, with your climbing coach! I thoroughly recommend this course. closed quotation

Tanya Meredith

open quotation What a cracking idea! A progressive learning package that helps develop climbers or coaches to grow their knowledge, confidence and application of climbing training. closed quotation

Ellis Bird

open quotation Overall a great course! You made it easier for me to deep dive into the fundamentals of training for climbing by presenting novel material and putting it together in one place. Thank you for that! I truly appreciated the template with examples of workouts that has been included. Very helpful. I bought a remote assessment at the same time I started doing the course, and this combination worked very well for me as a beginner in training for climbing. The content of the course helps a lot to understand the feedback provided in the assessment and gives something concrete to begin to work with. Motivation boost! closed quotation

Deryn Kaneko

open quotation I'm so loving it. It's very well written! closed quotation

Bettye Coleman

open quotation Very thorough, useful and informative. I’m sure it is going to improve my climbing. closed quotation

Vince

FAQs

Any climber who wishes to learn about the process of training for climbing. This course is suitable for those who are new to learning about training, as well as those who have already put time into the subject but are still looking to develop the skills to transfer to their climbing.

While there is no strict prerequisite, we recommend that participants have at least 6 months of climbing experience to maximise the benefits of this course. This course caters to a wide spectrum of climbing and training proficiency levels, offering valuable insights and a structured approach to help you determine what suits your specific needs.

No prior knowledge is required to enrol in this course. It is designed to accommodate both beginners who are new to training concepts and those who have prior experience but wish to deepen their understanding. Our course places a strong emphasis on practical application, making it suitable for individuals seeking real-life scenarios to enhance their training knowledge.

This course has been created for climbers over the age of 18. If you are under 18 and interested in training, we strongly recommend that you work in-person with a coach – under no circumstances should you watch the course and apply any of the training protocols without advice and supervision from your own coach.

If you work with a coach, you may not be looking to program your own training. However, understanding training and the process behind programming can still be incredibly useful. Knowing how to train well is an important stepping stone when it comes to completing a training program effectively. Understanding why we are doing what we are doing allows us to troubleshoot and communicate effectively with a coach.

If you’re just starting to write training plans and work with climbers in a training context, this course is a good place to begin.

If you have been a climbing coach for under 5 years this may act as CPD.

If you are an experienced coach who has completed a Sport Science degree and worked within the training industry for a long time, then this course will likely not be the most appropriate form of CPD for you – though seeing things in a different format may be interesting.

If you would like to purchase the course with multiple logins for your gym coaching team, please contact us.

The course will be taught through 7 chapters, each made up of a series of lessons. Alongside the lessons, there are tasks so that you can put into practice what you are learning. There are also examples along the way.

This course is delivered through our Education platform. The platform has a mobile app via Kajabi, so that learning on-the-go is easy. Alongside the content, you will receive example exercises that you can use in your training.

This course is created to act as a standalone learning experience. You can move through the course at your own pace and revisit sections. This means that you can use the course to support your climbing for years, as your climbing and training develops, or as your lifestyle changes.

However, we do understand that you may have questions or want to discuss the course content in more depth. We offer a 1:1 consultation service for more in-depth discussion, or our Facebook community page is a great place to connect with other climbers and share ideas. If you have any specific questions regarding the course, please contact us.

Alternatively, you may wish to participate in one of our Short Courses which are a deep dive in specific climbing training topics and include a live remote coach Q&A.

After you have purchased the course, you will receive a confirmation email from Lattice Training with instructions on how to access the course. In addition, you will receive a email from Lattice Training Education to set a password to log into the course platform.

These instructions are also available within your ‘Account’ under ‘Memberships’.

If you want to access the course via the mobile app, Kajabi, using the link in your email from Lattice Training Education, set a password to log into the course platform. Once you have done this, your email address will enable you to log into the app.

If you are experiencing any issues please contact us.

Once enrolled, you’ll enjoy lifetime access to the course.

If you change your mind after purchase, we will offer a full refund within 14 days from the day we email you to confirm your order, if you have not accessed or viewed any of the course materials.

You can request to cancel by submitting the following Cancellation Form

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If you change your mind after purchase, we will offer a full refund within 14 days after the course goes live if you have only partially viewed the course.

You can request to cancel by submitting the following Cancellation Form

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See our Cancellation Policy

You will have received a confirmation email from Lattice Training with instructions on how to access the course, in addition, you will have received an email from Lattice Training Education to set a password to log into the course platform.

These instructions are also available within your ‘Account’ under ‘Memberships’.

If you want to access the course via the mobile app ‘Kajabi’ you will need to go through the email from Lattice Training Education to set your password and activate your account – once you have done this your email address will enable you to log into the app.

If you are experiencing any issues please contact us.

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